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Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments
https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/
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Add more music glyphs #208

Closed rettinghaus closed 5 years ago

rettinghaus commented 5 years ago

Add glyphs to Musical Symbols Unicode block in range 1D100–1D1FF see https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf

cjchapman commented 5 years ago

The Noto project includes a music font that may be useful in its own right, and/or as reference material for anyone who is working on adding music glyphs to this (or any other) font.

Here's the Glyphs source for the Noto Music font: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-source/tree/master/src/NotoMusic

...and here's a binary version of it, which I believe was compiled by Google's tool chain (as opposed to having been compiled by the Glyphs app): https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/blob/master/unhinted/NotoMusic-Regular.ttf

kenlunde commented 5 years ago

Thank you, @cjchapman, for providing the Noto Music references, which makes it abundantly clear that adding richer Musical Symbols support to Source Code Pro is an unwise direction.

In addition to the non-monospaced glyphs being an effective non-starter for a typeface whose fonts are intended for editing source code or for use in terminal apps, the additional layout support that is needed to meaningfully typeset such glyphs is baggage that screams "specialized font," which is conveniently exemplified by Noto Music.

In my opinion, a separate Source Music Pro typeface would be the better approach.

I'll let someone else close this issue.